Australian IT services group SMS Management and Consulting has started building its staff numbers again as it exits a year characterised by slightly shrunken profits and revenues.
Australian IT services outfit Oakton today revealed the extent of the damage it has so far suffered from the global financial crisis, with both revenues and profits sinking over the past year and further staff cuts made.
IT services giant CSC today confirmed it would make a number of its Australian staff redundant as a result of the global financial crisis.
Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner yesterday said he didnt know how long it would take to reignite IT spending in Canberra following the Gershon review.
Australian IT services provider Oakton has promoted one of its senior staffers to the post of executive general manager of operations, a role which appears to mirror that of departed COO Steve Parker.
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